She woke the neighbor

Clarice started pulled scraps of the towel out of her bike wheel, trying to see if there was enough towel anywhere to salvage. The cloth had become badly tangled in the wheels and the spokes, and Clarice struggled to get any towel free. In the back of her mind she was freaking out, but she worked hard not to panic while she figured out what to do.

This wasn't the first time she had ended up naked in a precarious place, and one thing she had learned about herself was that she was able to keep her cool in tense situations. It had definitely helped when working at the comic shop; more than once a customer had cussed her out, and not letting herself fall apart was the best way to act in any situation. When she caught Champion, got home, and put some clothes on, then she'd scream about this. But right then and there she really needed to think about what she would do next.

But suddenly, a light came on just behind her! Clarice turned around to see that the indoors lights of the house she was in front of had just been turned on. The distinct sound of the door being unlocked could be heard.

Without thinking Clarice sprinted from the front lawn back into the street. She heard the door being open and hoped that the she was far enough out of the street lamps that the darkness would cover her. She probably had never run that fast before in her life. Working on instinct she nearly dove behind the SUV parked across the street. Pressing her naked to the cold metal as hard as she could, she stayed completely still.

"Hello? Is anyone out there?" she heard someone say. A woman's voice. Clarice didn't move a muscle.

"What is it dear?" Another woman.

"I don't know, I just heard a scream."

"Who's bike is that?"

Screaming internally, Clarice could hear the two women cross their lawn to the bike.

"Someone just left it here. There's some wash clothes tangled in its wheel."

"What should we do with it?"

"I don't know... put it in the garage?"

While she stood with her bare butt pressed at the SUV's metal, the two women open their garage and pulled Clarice's bike inside. For a second she wondered if she should confront them, naked and all. They were taking her bike and she didn't know how she would get it back from them. And maybe they would be nice and help her out, give her some clothes to put on.